Act Quotes

I really am a thinker. I don't do things rash. I know some of the things I've said or the way I act seem rash. But I do take ownership of it. I don't say things I don't mean.

The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live.

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.

Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.

The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man.

I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless?

For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.

We can't afford to sacrifice another generation of American children to bureaucratic politics. We've got to get it done. The future, the health, the life - our nation depends on it and it's just foolish to think or act otherwise.

I like anything that is like an obstruction, something that I have to act through is good.

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

But from the time I was very little, it was something I would do all the time, just sing, dance and act. So it wasn't something that was fake or contrived as I got older.

People who express suicidal feelings are least likely to act on them.

I saw Ronnie Hawkins play near my hometown, Port Dover, Ontario, and I saw him play there on New Year's Eve and the following spring I booked myself to be his opening act on maybe five shows, and he hired me after the first night.

Modeling was not an endgame for me. I didn't particularly enjoy the act of it.

My whole act is off the top of my head.

It's important to say that actors can't act alone, it's impossible. What we have to do is support each other.

The people elected us to end the talk and to act decisively.

As legislators and as Members of Congress, it is our obligation to speak up for those who are being ignored in our society. The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) does just that.

Being born, especially being born a person of color, is a political act in itself.

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

I don't call myself an artist. I act. That's what I do.

It turned out to be exactly that, but more challenging emotionally. I looked at it in a more physical way, having to act in a chair and move around. But it really was more emotionally challenging.

I always wanted to act, but I never thought it would be my profession. I thought that I'd end up doing other things, but that in the meantime I'd do plays.

To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.

I'd just turned 50, weighed 285, and my doctor had read me the riot act about my health.

I am a big fan of horror movies but I had never thought that I had wanted to act in one because I don't think that actors get to do much in them. They're usually just reacting.

I want to act because I don't know how to do anything else.